Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston’s Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism

I love these stories that keep popping up telling us the very, very obvious — for example, this one which accuses Bill O’Reilly of not being (gasp) fair and balanced. Anyone with an IQ of 90 and above could  [more...]

Carl Sagan, in his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, gives us a "Baloney Detection Kit" that provides a framework for dissecting and debunking. Take a look at this list of common fallacies  [more...]

I don’t really want to bloviate today, so I’ll let others do it for me in a far more comprehensive and intelligent way. But let me say this first: raising security on transit after an attack is pretty damned  [more...]